#BondedForever Photo Inspiration of the Day Instagram
I’m very fortunate to live in a city where there are beautiful murals and mosaics everywhere. They keep the urban city environment ebullient and colorful and make my daily walks through the city more enjoyable and stimulating. However, like any city, I also have to walk past a plethora of brick walls, pavement, and windows that are covered with spray painted swear words, random crude (and sometimes funny) statements, and people’s names. Luckily, there has been a friendlier street art movement happening in Philadelphia and all over the world called, yarn bombing (which involves tagging something with wrapped, knitted, or crocheted yarn).
Although this wheatpasted doily (which I believe was made by Tim Gibbons) isn’t made of yarn, it falls into that same friendly street art category. When I saw this on the corner of Bainbridge St. and Broad St, it instantly put a smile to my face. It made me think of handmade Valentine’s Day cards and the paper snowflakes that I used to make in grade school (although mine were never this good). I was also excited to see this, because I had read an article in Side Arts about Tim Gibbons a couple of months ago. All of the doilies that were photographed in the article were taken in West Philly, so it was a great surprise to see one in real life in Center City.
What makes you happy and thankful to be alive? Take a picture of it on Instagram and write the hashtag, #bondedforever.
